Group Link Post 04/27/2012
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Apps For Kids | Video Reviews | Education | iPad Kids Safety Tips
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Animoto – Flat Classroom Project: Perspective Detectives
very inspiring video from Cynthia Sandler graduate of the flat classroom project.
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How the iPad Is Changing Education
The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. It is selling like crazy, but it will be some time before most of the people you know own a tablet.
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365 million iOS devices ‘in play,’ iPad taking off in education and government markets
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SVA Names For-Profit Schools with Revoked Charters – Student Veterans of America
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Study: Effective School Libraries Impact Entire Schools, Not Just Test Scores
“An effective school library impacts more than student achievement—it also lifts a school’s entire educational climate, says a recent two-phase study by Rutgers University’s Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) on behalf of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL).”
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Pearltree I am putting together with resources covering variety of BYOD-related topics, including issues, implementation, classroom strategies, more.
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from tech crunch: A New York-based startup called Gopogo is launching in beta today to address this problem, with a geo-location platform for recording, sharing and discovering connected experiences. The startup launches with $3 million in seed funding from an undisclosed private equity group and has been testing its model with more than 10K people in both NYC and Los Angeles. Gopogo users create “Strings,” what the team describes as sharable social objects that consist of any group of places that have relevance and context for the user
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Flipping the Classroom — Breaking the Mold of Traditional Teaching | Scholastic.com
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When Missoula was Young – Blog
another great flat-classroom project by Cindy schultz. Collaboration between high schoolers and 3rd graders about the history of famous people in their town from a child’s perspective.
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